Journals / Journal of Old Turkic Studies / 2020 / Cilt: 4 - Sayı: 1

Bir Volga Bulgar Ölçütü: Tarihî ve Bölgesel Bir Araştırma

A Volga Bulgarian Classifier: A Historical and Areal Linguistic Study

Pages
7–15
DOI
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Abstract

In the Old Turkic period, the East Old Turkic variety produced written records, while the Oguric versions of West Old Turkic left oral sources from which data relevant to a given language state can be extracted. The author provides a historical and areal linguistic overview of Volga Bulgarian words meaning ’seed, grain, kernel’, contemporary correspondences of which used as classifiers in the Volga-Kama region.

Özet

In the Old Turkic period, the East Old Turkic variety produced written records, while the Oguric versions of West Old Turkic left oral sources from which data relevant to a given language state can be extracted. The author provides a historical and areal linguistic overview of Volga Bulgarian words meaning ’seed, grain, kernel’, contemporary correspondences of which used as classifiers in the Volga-Kama region.

Keywords: classifiers, West Old Turkic derivational archaism, Volga Bulgarian dialects, Chuvash type phonetic criteria, Volga Bulgarian-Proto-Mari contacts